Cybersecurity
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A new partnership between Vencore and the George Mason University aims to develop a cyber risk assessment methodology and tool to help agencies and other organizations analyze the value of the data and determine how best to mitigate potential cyber threats.
July 25, 2016 -
A new portal launches this week on the General Services Administration's Acquisition Gateway to help advise contracting people.
July 25, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget said it's taking stock of its accomplishments over the past eight years, as well as the items it has left on its cybersecurity to-do list, before the upcoming presidential transition. Implementing pieces of the new cyber workforce strategy is a top priority for the Obama administration during its last six months.
July 20, 2016 -
The Veterans Affairs Department and Underwriters Laboratories have signed an agreement to develop cybersecurity standards for health devices, such as pacemakers. Anura Fernando, principal engineer for medical software and systems interoperability at UL, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
July 20, 2016 -
By the end of this calendar year, the Defense Department plans to deliver new assessments of the cost and scope of the Joint Information Environment, the ambitious, four-year-old project to unify an estimated 15,000 IT networks and improve their security posture.
July 20, 2016 -
Health care IT experts and members of the communication sector say 5G, the next generation of wireless, can improve the medical field for patients and providers.
July 19, 2016 -
House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) wrote letters to both the Office of Personnel Management and Office of Management and Budget about their agencies' responses to a series of cyber breaches within the past year. Specifically, Lamar questioned whether foreign nationals and contractors had access to major IT systems and role they play in securing them.
July 19, 2016 -
Roopangi Kadakia joins the Veterans Affairs Department as its new chief information security officer after spending the last five years at NASA.
July 19, 2016 Blue Coat Systems Federal CTO Aubrey Merchant joins host John Gilroy to discuss Cloud Access Security, network visibility, and lifecycle security. July 19, 2016
July 18, 2016-
The Defense Department is heading to Washington and California to bond with its partners and get IT news straight from tech companies' mouths.
July 18, 2016 -
GSA awarded two task orders to ManTech and Knowledge Consulting Group to provide continuous monitoring-as-a-service and privileged management services under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program.
July 18, 2016 -
Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security Department’s secretary, issued his second BOD in late June requiring agencies to work with DHS to ensure they are protecting their high-valued assets as required under the Cybersecurity Implementation Plan (CSIP).
July 18, 2016 -
Kate Josephs is leaving the PIC after two years, while NASA gets a new CISO in Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz.
July 18, 2016 -
Ivor D’Souza, the chief information officer of the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, said an interagency effort to cut the time it takes to connect the dots during an outbreak is paying off.
July 15, 2016 -
The Army is behind schedule on transitioning to Windows 10 by 2017. Legacy systems are partly to blame.
July 15, 2016
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